Folks, I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Macintosh Mini. What made it tough was that, first, it wasn't Puppy. I really wanted it to be. Plus the live CD hung at boot because (as I later found out) the Airport Card had no driver supplied by the CD. I had to start the CD with that driver blacklisted. Huh?!

Next, for the sound to work, it had to be tweaked with a module configuration I searched the internet to discover.

I've used Puppies for many, many years on PCs with excellent results and I miss that ease and dependability that Puppy's team have made the Puppy Linux experience become. Still the best use-instantly-out-of-the-box distro I've found. Period.

Should any of you EVER decide to make a PowerPC version of Puppy, I'd push it's existence and use with unbridled relish.

There's a lot of old Mac hardware becoming obsoleted due to the aging web browsers they're being forced to use. With OSX Tiger, 10.4.11, you can only get Firefox 3.6.3. Geez I wish there was a Puppy for Macs. Anyone getting motivated yet? ;^)

Replies have to go to garrisonjs@yahoo.com as the old email addy is to a job I no longer hold and can't seem to get it altered by a moderator here. =^(

I AM that other user. In order to keep my job identity separate from my home identity I used my work email addy. I have had the yahoo addy for many, many years. And yes, if you can, please associate the yahoo addy with this ID.

I DID send a request for the fix quite some time ago.So if it's in your power to do so, please do.

Much obliged!Last edited by puponmanyoldlaptops on Sat 19 Jan 2013, 23:06; edited 2 times in total

Ubuntu has done it. My mini runs tremendously with the exception of the weirdness of the live CD not booting because the Airport Card driver wasn't included. I had to blacklist the card.

Second, the sound worked on the live CD but not after the install. I had to mess with blacklisting not-working drivers. I actually accidentally erased all the blacklisted ones and that made the Key Largo driver work Linux-magically.

I'd love to see a Puppy PowerPC disro because all that's available for a web browser are either Safari, which is the best of the lot, a patched 10.4 Fox which is atrocious, and Firefox 3.6.3 an ancient, sloggy thing. And I really like Puppy for old hardware. It really is the most complete, no fuss Linux ever for old PCs. There needs to be a Puppy for really old Mac hardware.

The reason I mentioned that the email address is registered to another user is that two users aren't allowed to have the same email address. I can't change your present email address to your home email address unless I first delete the account you registered with your home email address. What is it?

..PowerBooks and iBooks easily run Tiger (10.4). But I'm still hoping for Puppy.

Yes, my daughter has said she'll give me her old G4 iBook, which is running Tiger 10.4, so i'd love to be able to make it more useful and probably quicker with Puppy! Not so easy with Power PC architecture

There has been a forum member trying to do this for some time, unfortunately i can't recall his username at the moment....someone with a livelier memory might be able to help out here..

Easy enough to run Puppy on an Intel Mac, been doing it for a couple of years or so now.....initially, i was running live CDs with savefiles on usb flash drive, but finally got around to formatting this drive and now run only Puppy frugals from the hdd....gotta love it _________________This aging business really bugs me - it didn't bother me years ago, so why is it happening now??meownplanet - puppylinuxstuff

The reason I mentioned that the email address is registered to another user is that two users aren't allowed to have the same email address. I can't change your present email address to your home email address unless I first delete the account you registered with your home email address. What is it?

The first user name was just puponoldlaptops. When I dropped the email address at work, I changed the user name to puponmanyoldlaptops.

..PowerBooks and iBooks easily run Tiger (10.4). But I'm still hoping for Puppy.

Yes, my daughter has said she'll give me her old G4 iBook, which is running Tiger 10.4, so i'd love to be able to make it more useful and probably quicker with Puppy! Not so easy with Power PC architecture

There has been a forum member trying to do this for some time, unfortunately i can't recall his username at the moment....someone with a livelier memory might be able to help out here..

Easy enough to run Puppy on an Intel Mac, been doing it for a couple of years or so now.....initially, i was running live CDs with savefiles on usb flash drive, but finally got around to formatting this drive and now run only Puppy frugals from the hdd....gotta love it

It has always been my "thing" to salvage computers considered too far past their prime. My first was in 2005. A Dell Latitude Pentium 1 with 144MB of RAM that the donor shoehorned Windows XP in.

I rescued it because the battery held a charge for two hours. Puppy 2.14, then Edupup (remember THAT?!) worked amazingly on it. And I found a network card that Puppy liked, so I websurfed with it, and used it in the store to sell people on using Puppy Linux.

I was so successful with my proselytizing that our Techs use a live Puppy CD to this day (I'm not there anymore) to check PCs for fitness and damage before they try to refurbish them for re-use.

And I made and distributed (out of my own pocket) many, many Puppy Linux CDs with printed instructions and my email address for those who were interested and wanted to use it

-Ubuntu developers had to create a seperate Ubuntu port for Macs (including Intel Macs) because the hardware is so different from a PC.
-Even in a Intel Mac, a lot of the hardware is different.
-When making RAM sticks for Macs, it's bit harder because the RAM is different than a PCs.
-Even keyboards have to be made differently at times.
-Macs overall have always been inferior (Performance-wise) to PCs.
-The graphics chip has to be made differently for Macs.

That is only part of the list._________________Intellectual Property isn't Real Property. Smart people know that.

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